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The Perfect Scam

International Fraud and Money Laundering Ring Exposed, Part 2

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5980 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2, Homeland Security Agent Justin Deutsch and colleagues pursue Mary Marr, the leader of a fraud and money laundering ring that defrauded hundreds of victims who thought they were buying tech stocks. A member of an elusive organization called the Knights of Malta, Marr uses a diplomatic passport to evade capture across many countries before her arrest in a beauty salon in Serbia.

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0:00.0

This week on the Perfect Scam.

0:03.0

People have worked their whole life and saved up their money and now they've lost it all and now they're moving back in with their kids because they've mortgaged their house.

0:12.0

Their health is declining, their marriages

0:14.0

fall apart. It really destroys their life. So every day that you're not making an arrest or not doing something,

0:21.5

and you just think laying in bed at night, like, oh God, like who else is losing their money tonight and their life is being destroyed?

0:28.0

So there's a lot of pressure to try to get it done.

0:37.0

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

0:39.0

When we left our story,

0:41.0

dollars from hell, we left Barry Mar.

0:44.8

She of the $10,000 dinners, the $20,000 couches,

0:49.1

the millions of dollars stolen from victims who thought they were buying tech stocks.

0:54.0

She had slipped through the hands of law enforcement again and again.

0:59.0

A red notice issued for her wasn't working, even though U.S. officials had managed to

1:04.6

nab the number two in her operation when he tried to enter Bulgaria using that same

1:09.4

red-notice technique. They had good intel about where she was and that she was crossing borders where

1:16.1

the red notice should have worked. But Mary, who was raised as the child of a father who also

1:22.1

ran boiler rooms, well she has an ace up her sleeve.

1:27.0

Mary had joined this kind of elite organization. It's called the Sovereign Order of Malta. It's also called the Knights of Malta.

1:37.0

That's Homeland Security Investigations Agent Justin Deutsch. He's the one chasing Mary Marr. We met him in part one of this series.

1:46.4

So, the Knights of Malta?

1:49.4

This is a group that it does not own any territory, but they are recognized under international law from a lot of countries as being a sovereign entity.

2:03.7

And they kind of provide like humanitarian assistance,

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